White light is used to illuminate the two slits in a Young's double slit experiment. The separation between the slits is b and the screen is at a distance D from the slits. At a point on a screen directly in front of one of the slits, certain wavelength are missing. Some of these wavelengths are: (A) $λ=\frac{b^2}{D}$ Choose the correct answer from the options given below: |
(D) only (B) and (D) only (C) only (A) and (C) only |
(A) and (C) only |
The correct answer is Option (4) → (A) and (C) only Path Difference $(Δx)=\frac{yb}{d}$ Hence, Path difference $(Δx)$ at any point in front of a slit = $\frac{b^2}{2d}$ for some of wavelength to be missing, some of its odd multiple of half its wavelength must be equal to path difference. $∴\frac{b^2}{2d}=\left(m+\frac{1}{2}\right)λ$ for $m = 0,λ\frac{b^2}{d}$ for $m = 1,λ\frac{b^2}{3d}$ |